'E' by Gum!

Lifeline's Peanut Pete Ecstasy safety leaflets archived here by their designer / writer Michael Linnell.

Acid House by Paul Oldfield, Melody Maker 1988

Detroit Techno - by Paul Oldfield, Melody Maker, 1988

ambient d&b

kind of ambient drum & bass, without the drums ... and the bass dissolved from distinct riffs into a mire of sub-lo texture

like someone auditioning for a sound design job on Blade Runner 2049

and also not unlike Acardipane's most ambient-gabba moments e.g. "Jupiter Pulse"

Nodz on

Suburban Base's graphic designer Dave Nodz having a bash on the Cubase


Not to be confused with this




or this project






back to the brilliance of Nodz

                                           

                                             


Woebot did a fab profile of Nodz back in the early blogging days - now findable only in the Big Book of Woe. a snip at $2.99

ghosts of futures past

via Luke Davis, a gorgeous film of  kids electro-boogieing on the London Underground, as haunting for its ghostly glimpses of public transport and commuters in the Eighties as the angular grace of the dancing and the sleek futurism of the clothes


some more ghosts - and a track that is a 20th Century monument

neuro97

maybe neurofunk wasn't a totally bad idea after all - that's pretty wicked, that

off of Jonny L's Sawtooth which is getting a reissue to celebrate its 20 Years Existence

plus a raft of remixes (all by dubstep-aligned types not drum & bass operators, significantly) of his big tune of '97 "Piper"

who knew there was a promo?



puro neuro



but he could also do pretty



and then within just a few years he'd jumped from neuro two-steppers to actual 2step garridge - and onto the TOTP sound-stage, in the company of Posh Spice




the foundation of his Hall of Fame status, though, is this early effort








the 99 relick




i guess that's why call it a Continuum, folks! (pt 2984)

proto grime

garage rap really - precursor to Pay As U Go




https://www.mixcloud.com/uncledugs/spp-slimzee-plague-and-paco-on-rinse-1003-fm-late-1999/

siiiick bass, Think-ing dark

 sick B-line

that track, I always connected with  Mask / Gang Related's "Ready Or Not" - both have that mental jagged bassline

"Ready Or Not" annoyingly isn't on YouTube in its original form, but only as this (pretty decent) remix